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Possession and ownership : a cross-linguistic typology / edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - xxii, 319 p. ; 24 cm. - Explorations in linguistic typology ; 6 . - Explorations in linguistic typology ; v. 6. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a wide range of languages.

ISBN: 9780199660223 (hbk.) 0199660220 (hbk.)

LCCN: 2012532135

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Grammar, Comparative and general--Possessives.

LC Class. No.: P299 P67 / P665 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 415